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THE BEACH HOUSE
(Beit El Baher)

ROY DIB'S FIRST FEATURE FILM
LEBANON | 2016 | 75' | COL.

Rayya invites Youssef and Rawad, two friends she hadn’t seen for over 10 years, for a gathering at her family’s beach house in Lebanon that she now shares with her older sister Leila. Rayya has made her singing hobby a weekly ritual where she invites a selected audience to watch her perform at the house. The film starts as the performance ends, and Rayya urges her friends to stay for dinner. The four have things to hide and things to perform. Condensed within the beach house – an active fifth character – a casual dinner becomes a ritualistic rite of passage where the characters feast on the building blocks of their personal and communal identities.

ROY DIB

Born in 1983, Roy Dib is an artist and filmmaker that works and lives in Beirut, Lebanon. His work focuses on the subjective constructions of space. His latest short film Mondial 2010 (2014) won several awards including the Teddy Award for the Best Short Film at the 64th Berlinale, Best Short Film at Queer Lisboa International Film Festival, and the Uppsala Grand Prix at Uppsala International Short Film Festival. His latest video installation, A Spectacle of Privacy debuted at the Exposure 2015 show at the Beirut Art Center and then featured at the Berlinale’s 2015 Forum Expanded, Queer Porto 1 (2015), Images Festival in Toronto (2016), and won an award at the Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil (2015).

IL NIDO
(The Nest)

KLAUDIA REYNICKE'S FIRST FEATURE FILM
SWITZERLAD - ITALY | 2016 | 75' | COL.

Cora, a 19-year-old girl, has recently returned to the place where she spent her childhood, Bucco. She is helping her father Michele, mayor of the town, to organize the celebrations for the Feast of the Virgin of Bucco, an annual event which attracts many Roman Catholic pilgrims and tourists. But the arrival of the mysterious Saverio gradually upsets the harmony of the “holy” place, unearthing a crime committed by the villagers 40 years before.

KLAUDIA REYNICKE

Klaudia Reynicke is a Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker, who grows up in Peru, the USA and Switzerland. Before turning to film, she studies the plastic arts, anthropology and sociology. She directs several documentaries including Is This How Men Are? (¿Asi son los hombres? – 2013) and Mermaids (2014).
Il nido (The Nest - 2016) is her first fiction feature.

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